Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

It's a wonderful life if you can find it.

He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.

All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

A writer should be able to open a window or two and prompt others to see the world and themselves in a new light. Anything less is just self–indulgence and intellectual masturbation.

What do we do know?(Peeta)I guess we try to forget...(Katniss)I don't want to forget.(Peeta)

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

College is about three things: homework, fun, and sleep...but you can only choose two.

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.

All doctrine is ultimately the death of joy - even when the doctrine is the elevation of the light above the serious, because joy is too varied and elusive ever to confine itself to one or the other.

My dying planet needs to see what the body of Christ looks like.

My husband is not running for the presidency, neither are my children, neither is our business, neither are our foster children.